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Renaissance
Poetry
Humanism
a movement in writters and artists
synthesize lessons.
Sonnet
written in verse
form
Iambic Pentameter
line of poetry
broke down into 5
iambs
Petrarchan Sonnet
8 lines=octave
6 lines= sestet
abbaabba
then
octave- speaker has a
problem
cdecde or cdcdcd
sestet- solves the problem
John Milton
Sonnet XIX: When I Consider How my Light is Spent
When I consider how my light is spent
Ere half my days in this dark world and wide,
And that one talent which is death to hide
Lodg'd with me useless, though my soul more bent
To serve therewith my Maker, and present
My true account, lest he returning chide,
"Doth God exact day-labour, light denied?"
I fondly ask. But Patience, to prevent
That murmur, soon replies: "God doth not need
Either man's work or his own gifts: who best
Bear his mild yoke, they serve him best. His state
Is kingly; thousands at his bidding speed
And post o'er land and ocean without rest:
They also serve who only stand and wait."
Shakespearean
Sonnet
three quatrains- 4
lines each
abab cdcd efef gg
1 couplet- 2 lines
My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun;
Coral is far more red than her lips' red;
If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun;
If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head.
I have seen roses damask'd, red and white,
But no such roses see I in her cheeks;
And in some perfumes is there more delight
Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks.
I love to hear her speak, yet well I know
That music hath a far more pleasing sound;
I grant I never saw a goddess go;
My mistress, when she walks, treads on the ground:
And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare
As any she belied with false compare.
the three quantrians
express the story,
the couplet sums up
the message
Spenserian
Sonnet
3 quantrians-
couplet-
abab bcbc
cdcd ee
"Sonnet LIV"
Of this World's theatre in which we stay,
My love like the Spectator idly sits,
Beholding me, that all the pageants play,
Disguising diversely my troubled wits.
Sometimes I joy when glad occasion fits,
And mask in mirth like to a Comedy;
Soon after when my joy to sorrow flits,
I wail and make my woes a Tragedy.
Yet she, beholding me with constant eye,
Delights not in my mirth nor rues my smart;
But when I laugh, she mocks: and when I cry
She laughs and hardens evermore her heart.
What then can move her? If nor mirth nor moan,
She is no woman, but a senseless stone.
Sir Thomas Wyatt
Brough Italian Sonnet to
England
Did not publish his work,
he'd just give them to
his friends. Published 15
years after his death
Loved Anne Boylen
He is
pursuing a
woman that
he can't have
Summary
Metaphor
Anne- the
deer
Who So
List to
Hunt
Contradictory
Images
Laugh-cry;
tame-wild;
diamondsplain
Rhyme
Scheme
and Type
of Sonnet
Petrarchan
Edmund Spencer
Buried in Poet's
Corner in
Westminster Abbey
Was a poor scholar
Wrote the longest
epic poem
Summary
He loves his
love, and
she isn't
very nice
Metaphor
Fire is like
his passion
for his wife
Sonnet
30
Summary
Rhyme
Scheme
and Type
of Sonnet
Spensarian
He wants his love to live
forever, but she's mortal. He
writes a poem to last forever
Metaphor
Comparing her name in the
sand to her life-she will
eventually disappear
Sonnet
75
Contradictory
Images
Fire-ice;
melts-ice
mortalimmortan;
death- life
renew
Contradictory
Images
Rhyme
Scheme
and Type
of Sonnet
Spensarian
Christopher
Marlowe
Was a spy
Arrested for
controversial
speeches
Was a rowdy guy.
Summary
Wants to live in the
country with her, and
says he will make her
happy
Tone
Seductive
and
optimistic
Influence
The
Passionate
Shepherd
to His Love
Pastoral
Poetry
Images of beautiful
valley,s hills, and
rivers
His heart
Sir Walter Raleigh
He was a handsome,
errogant, and dashing
man.
Enemies convicted
him of treason
His men attacked
Spain, and the Spainish
King had him executed
Summary
She isn't going
to go there
with him, and
she says why
Tone
Doubtful
Influence
The
Nymph's
Reply to the
Shepherd
Anti-Pastoral
Poetry
Harsh cold winters,
rottering flowers,
sorrow and hard work
Her mind and
practical ideas
Robert Herrick
Wrote his best
stuff while in the
vicar Dean prior.
Wrote about
inoscense
pleasures
Was replaced by
another
clergyman
Summary
He's saying that life moves too fast, so don't be coy
be single people should marry fast and happy
because time is "running out"
Carpe
Diem
Sun
Reference
"Lamp of
heaven"
To the
Virgins, to
Make Much
of Time
Figures of
Speech
Tomorrow will
be dying
Old time is still flying, and
tomorrow will be dying. He talks
about how life is moving too fast.
Andrew
Marvell
Served in
Parliment
Unpublished
during his life.
Educated in
Cambridge
Summary
Telling his love, that he'll
love her forever and it'll only
get better.
Carpe
Diem
Sun
Reference
He wants days to slow down,
and make "the sun" or the
days not go on so fast.
To His
Coy
Mistress
Figures of
Speech
Winged chariot;
vegetable love
should grow.
He talks about
judgement day, and
that could mean time is
running out.